coffee potful

coffee potful (plural not attested)

1. Alternative form of coffeepotful
   • 1925 June 14, A. J. Ulam, “Nature Seen At Her Best: Trip To Upper Kaweah By Newspapermen”, in The Fresno Morning Republican, volume LXVII, number 165, Fresno, Calif., section “Where The Fish Are”, page 5C:

     He secured a coffee potful of trout fry in the Big Arroyo country and clambered over some of the roughest land in the Sierra ranges.

   • 1963 March 27, Maury Kane, “Those Chimes You Hear? They’re Secular, Not Spiritual”, in Stockton Record, sixty-eighth year, number 303, Stockton, Calif., page 13:

     ADD CITY SCENES … the woman down the block from the Record office, carrying a coffee potful of water to a carefully tended sapling in front of her American Street apartment, ignoring the state’s plans to uproot her and her tree within a decade with the Crosstown Freeway.

   • 1974 February 22, Mike Shropshire, “Rangers Seeking Fuel for Friday’s Training Camp Opener”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, ninety-fourth year, number 22, section C, page one:

     LINES OF teary-eyed Florida motorists stretching to four blocks long clog the streets as they grovel for their bi-weekly allotment of a coffee potful of gas.

   • 1990 May 27, Rachele Kanigel, “Transplant stories show boys’ ordeal”, in The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C., section “Crippling the system”, page 13A:

     An adult may need as much as a coffee potful of marrow.

   • 1998, Betty Darby, Rich Wittish, The Insiders’ Guide to Savannah, →ISBN, page 76:

     Savannahians drink it year round, and here’s a good way to make a gallon-size pitcherful: Place three family-size tea bags in the basket of your automatic coffee maker and brew up a coffee potful of tea. Put about a cup of sugar in the pitcher, and pour the hot tea on top. Stir it up and add a coffee potful of water and stir again.